Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 27

Lady Grubbe, who now came up, parted her little daughter's hair from the child's brow, and looked at her affectionately; but Marie did not understand why.

Who acts: Lady, Marie · What happens: come up, part, look, not understand · To what, where: hair

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady, Marie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
2	Grubbe	Grubbe	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Lady	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 came	nsubj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	advmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 parted	punct
9	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 daughter	nmod:poss
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 daughter	amod
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hair	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 daughter	case
14	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 parted	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	19 brow	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 child	det
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 brow	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 child	case
19	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 parted	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 looked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 looked	cc
22	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 parted	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 looked	obl
25	affectionately	affectionately	ADV	_	22 looked	advmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 understand	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 understand	cc
28	Marie	Marie	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 understand	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 understand	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 understand	advmod
31	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	parataxis
32	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	31 understand	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	Lady		now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	part	past		lady's little daughter's hair		from the child's brow	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent hair=Patient from brow=Co-Patient
3	look	past				at lady; affectionately property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
4	not understand	past · do-support	Marie				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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